BIRMINGHAM and surrounding airfields
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BIRMINGHAM and surrounding airfields
If anyone is interested in the history of Birmingham and its airfields could they PM me please or post on here?
Birmingham and the surrounding area had many airfields such as Shirley, Kings Heath, Knowle and Hockley Heath,
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/file0002.htm
these and more are covered in Alf Jenks book,
"Aviation in Warwickshire Between the Wars"
The book is privately published by Alf and only available from
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/
The author is hoping to interview more people who worked at Elmdon and recently interviewed an engineer who started at Elmdon a few months after it opened in 1939. He also worked at the sixties company Mid Fly.
He has also interviewed the last CFI of the Midland Aero Club and the Warwickshire Aero Club..
If anyone else worked at Elmdon, was based there or flew from there can they also make contact please.(esp pre 1980)
Birmingham airport will be 70 years old next year and it is hoped an event can be arranged..
Birmingham and the surrounding area had many airfields such as Shirley, Kings Heath, Knowle and Hockley Heath,
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/file0002.htm
these and more are covered in Alf Jenks book,
"Aviation in Warwickshire Between the Wars"
The book is privately published by Alf and only available from
http://www.warwickshireaviation.co.uk/
The author is hoping to interview more people who worked at Elmdon and recently interviewed an engineer who started at Elmdon a few months after it opened in 1939. He also worked at the sixties company Mid Fly.
He has also interviewed the last CFI of the Midland Aero Club and the Warwickshire Aero Club..
If anyone else worked at Elmdon, was based there or flew from there can they also make contact please.(esp pre 1980)
Birmingham airport will be 70 years old next year and it is hoped an event can be arranged..
Last edited by llanfairpg; 11th Jan 2008 at 10:33.
birmingham and surrounding airfields
i am very interested in birmingham and other airfields local to me - i have seen recently that elmdon used to have 3 runways in the 40's - i have not heard this before and have been unable to confirm this either -can you or anyone help ?
thanks
thanks
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I feel sure that Honiley was operational well into the 1950s. My Dad worked for Lucas Aerospace and talked of working there as well as at Marston Green. It very nearly became operational again in 2006 courtesy of a Mahan Air A310. AAIB report here:-
https://assets.publishing.service.go...007_F-OJHI.pdf
Just rereading your posting - the 1950s were hardly "between the wars"!! - Well at least not WW1 and WW2.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...007_F-OJHI.pdf
Just rereading your posting - the 1950s were hardly "between the wars"!! - Well at least not WW1 and WW2.
Is the airfield that was at Fen End near Kenilworth covered?
Used to love racing round that testing truck brakes when I worked for Lucas in the late 80's
Used to love racing round that testing truck brakes when I worked for Lucas in the late 80's
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"Aviation in Warwickshire Between the Wars" Covers from 1919 up to 1939.
Honiley wasn't built until 1941 the site closed for flying in March 1958.
Then Lucas/Verity in 1961, Prodrive around 2000, JLR 2015.
Honiley wasn't built until 1941 the site closed for flying in March 1958.
Then Lucas/Verity in 1961, Prodrive around 2000, JLR 2015.
